Decision criteria in dual discrimination tasks estimated using external-noise methods

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1042-1055

  Zak, Ido ^a   Katkov, Mikhail ^a   Gorea, Andrei ^b   Sagi, Dov ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

Decision making; Dual task performance; Signal detection theory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DECISION THEORY; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC;

ADULT; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CUES; DECISION THEORY; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; ROC CURVE; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84862657174     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-012-0269-0     Document Type: Article

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